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How kids’ brains respond to a late night up
Any parent can tell you about the consequences of their child not getting enough sleep. But there is far less...
Pine product offers fresh take on fine chemical synthesis
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 28, 2016) - The goop from pine trees that contains compounds known as...
New finding about a protein that enables our brains and muscles to talk
Credit: Phil Jones, Augusta University Senior Photographer AUGUSTA, Ga. (Nov. 28, 2016) - A huge colony of receptors must be...
Engineering success
Credit: Sonia Fernandez If you're a college undergrad, you know full well your third year is your moment of truth....
NASA’s Aqua satellite sees remnants of Tropical Cyclone Tokage
Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Cyclone Tokage fell apart after crossing the Philippines and moving into the...
Secret phenotypes: Disease devils in invisible details
Loading video... Credit: Georgia Tech / Hang Lu When a microscopic lab worm grows an eye-popping oddity, scientists locate the...
Nano factories to prevent bacterial colonization
Credit: University of Konstanz The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, 30 November 2016 at 16:00 in the university's...
Model could shatter a mystery of glass
Credit: (Video by Ge Zhang, Department of Chemistry) A glass is a curious material in between liquid and solid states...
A new technique for structural color, inspired by birds
Credit: (Image courtesy of Henning Galinski) A peacock's bright teal and brilliant blue feathers are not the result of pigments...
What’s up with Madagascar?
Credit: Rando Trek VTT Madagascar, the big island off the east coast of Africa with the lemurs and baobabs, is...
Modern hunter-gatherers show value of exercise
Credit: Photo: Brian Wood In a remote area of north-central Tanzania, men leave their huts on foot, armed with bows...
Young toddlers can tell when others hold false beliefs, study finds
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) A new study finds that, under the right conditions, 2 1/2-year-old children can answer questions...
Largest resource of human protein-protein interactions can help interpret genomic data
An international research team has developed the largest database of protein-to-protein interaction networks, a resource that can illuminate how numerous...
Smart patch releases blood thinners as needed
Credit: Yuqi Zhang An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a smart patch designed to monitor a patient's blood and...
Gene discovered to cause rare, severe neurological disease
Credit: Peter McPherson Lab, Montreal Neurological Institute Researchers have linked a debilitating neurological disease in children to mutations in a...
Wound irrigation tools improvised in the wilderness are effective
Credit: Susanne J. Spano Philadelphia, PA, November 28, 2016 - Wounds are a very common injury and irrigation is crucial...
Toxic ‘marine snow’ can sink quickly, persist at ocean depths
Credit: Astrid Schnetzer In a new study, researchers from North Carolina State University found that a specific neurotoxin can persist...
It’s all in the eyes: Women and men really do see things differently
Women and men look at faces and absorb visual information in different ways, which suggests there is a gender difference...
Timing the shadow of a potentially habitable extrasolar planet
Credit: NAOJ A group of researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the University of Tokyo, and the...
Hydrogen in your pocket? New plastic for carrying and storing hydrogen
Credit: Waseda University A Waseda University (Tokyo) research group has developed a polymer which can store hydrogen in a light,...
